A Blog Of Uncertainty

Archaeologist, Geographer Part time professor, full time husband&father Annoyed drunken wombat

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Free Speech “Zones” are fucking bullshit! Resist!

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By Juvenile (Roman satirist) via Dean Blundel on Substack:

“‘Panem et circenses.’ Feed us and entertain us, and we will not ask what you are doing with our liberty.”

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[blackcoyot96]

So fact about me. I've been practicing flintknapping aka stone tool making. Ever since I've started my path in archaeology, I already how stone tools help hominins.

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we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

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torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

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I sometimes feel that I'm not doing enough with my life, but at least I grew my first two arms significantly before a cactus would have been expected to.

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Reblog if you grew your first two arms significantly before a cactus would be expected to

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Be sure to give adolescent saguaros a thumbs up to let them know they’re doing a good job.

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The current state of the United States.

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One more in the W column for Japan.